For more than forty years, the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union directly thrented each other with nuclear weapons. This period of time is referred to as the cold war. In my research paper I will be describing the cold war in full details, the people that influence the war, and introducing the major affect that the war played in society. During the Cold War the containment was hard to control. Mutual suspicion had long existed between the West and the USSR(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics), and friction was sometimes manifest in the Grand Alliance during World War II. After the war the West felt threatened by the continued expansionist policy of the Soviet Union, and the traditional Russian fear of incursion from the West continued. Communists seized power in Eastern Europe with the support of the Red Army, the Russian occupation zones in Germany and Austria were sealed off by army patrols, and threats were directed against Turkey and Greece. Conflict sometimes grew intense in the United Nations, which was at times incapacitated by the ramifications of the cold war, at others effective in dealing with immediate issues. The containment strategy also provided a unprecedented arms buildup in the United States with the help of the atomic bomb. In 1950, a National Security Council Report known as NSC–68 had echoed Truman’s recommendation that the country use military force to "contain" communist expansionism anywhere it seemed to be occurring. To that end, the report called for a four-fold increase in defense spending. American officials encouraged the development of atomic weapons like the ones that had ended World War II. Thus began a deadly "arms race." In 1949, the Soviets tested an atom bomb of their own. In response, President Truman announced that the United States would build an even more destructive atomic weapon: the hydrogen bomb, or "superbomb." Stalin followed suit. As a result, the stakes of the Cold War were...

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...﻿ColdWar Revision
A war short of full scale war because of the development of the Atomic bomb.
CAUSES OF THE COLDWAR [BARE]
1. Beliefs: Russia was a Communist country, ruled by a dictator who cared little about human rights.
America was a capitalist democracy, which valued freedom.
2. Aims: Stalin wanted reparations from Germany/ a buffer of friendly states.
Britain and the USA [led by President Truman] wanted to help Germany recover/ to prevent large areas of Europe from coming under Communist control.
3. Resentment about history: The USSR did not trust Britain and the USA – They had tried to destroy the Russian Revolution in 1918/ Stalin thought they had not helped the USSR enough in WW2.
Britain & USA did not trust USSR – Stalin had signed the Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939.
4. Events turned the mistrust into war: Yalta/ Potsdam/ Salami tactics/ Fulton/ Greece/ Truman Doctrine/ Marshall Plan/ Cominform/ Czechoslovakia
YALTA Conference (February 1945)
1. Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed to Divide Germany into 4 zones (France, Britain, USA, USSR)/ to hold free elections in Eastern European countries./ to set up the United Nations./ to set up a government of Communists and non Communists in Poland.
2. On the surface, everything seemed friendly, but there was tension behind the scenes
POTSDAM Conference (July 1945)
1. At Potsdam the tensions surfaced.
2....

...The ColdWar was a period of hostility, fear, and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union from the end of the 1940s to late 1980s. Like what Winston Churchill said, the world has been divided by the “Iron Curtain” during the ColdWar between the Communists and the capitalists. It was called the ColdWar because it was only a psychological warfare with no active wars between the two nations, which were due to the fear of nuclear arms. The result of the ColdWar affected the world tremendously. It lead the USSR to ultimate destruction and bankruptcy but it also made America the number one super power in the world. The ColdWar influenced nearly all aspects of America through technology, culture, and media.
Military based technology development was the key for both countries during the ColdWar. Whether it was the Nuclear Race, or the Space Race, both were the keys to success. The Nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy of the world during the coldwar between the two nations along with their allies. Both America and Russia massively built up their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. Some of the most important weapons and plans that are still in use today were developed like the ABM (antiballistic Missile), MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction),...

...ColdWar DBQ
Between 1941 and 1949, the Soviet Union and the United States, capitalists and communists had a major disagreement about political affairs. From the Red Scare, to the Bolsheviks Revolution, communism fright has spread around the US. The United States wanted to spread capitalism and decrease communism, while the Soviet Union wanted the opposite. Both sides used several methods and/or tactics to stop the spread of the opposite political view. These methods used by the United States and Soviet Union increased tension and suspicion between the two countries. Creations and arrangements of many conferences and actions taken by either side led to the Russian and American alliance to be broken and suspicion and tension led to a long lasting ColdWar.
In World War II, Russia began to fight with Germany. During the war, Russia became weak and the United States and Great Britain did not step in to contribute to its ally (Doc 1). The Casablanca Conference, in 1943, was held to discuss the second front in which Russia was missing since the US and Great Britain refused to help and how to find a strategy to end the war. The refusal by the two countries made Russia believe that the US was against them for being communist and increased suspicion of how loyal its American ally was. The Casablanca Conference was successful and set up how the rest of the war would...

...The ColdWar began because of a clash between two world superpowers, the United States and the USSR.
These two countries were in a battle for superiority but this battle never once led to a 'hot' war as the United States and the USSR never actually fired at each other. The main reason there was such an initial clash between these superpowers is that each country had completely different ideologies. The USSR functioned in a Communist fashion and the United States operated with Capitalism. The Containment Policy came about because of these different ideologies and played a major role in the conflict between these two superpowers.
Both of these countries were competing blow for blow and both of the countries strengthened their development in technology and weaponry with the space race and arms race. All of these events led up to the development of a ColdWar between these two powers because each country wanted to be the superior and there was no want to compromise. They were both so adamant to the fact that their side was greater than the other and this thought led up to the start of the ColdWar.
The primary reason that the ColdWar began was the differing ideologies between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The United States had a solid grasp on Capitalism and planned on other countries converting to the same economic policy that...

...Thesis : The coldwar caused widespread fear in the United States that there would be a WWIII using nuclear weapons.
The ColdWar was a period of time from 1953 to 1990 which dealt with tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which were the two superpowers of the world. The term was an example of the cold tensions and relationships between the USSR and The United States, Western Europe and many parts of the world. They had Marshall Plan which was economic and foreign policy that offered aid to western european countries after the world war 2. After the end of World War Two the Soviet’s had taken control of much of East Europe. The arms race was a race between the United States and the USSR over nuclear weapons and later the development of long range and more powerful missiles. This is not to be confused with the space race of which was over who would reach space and later the moon first. During this time, the US foreign policy with the USSR was one of constant strain and speculation. There were fears if the United States went back to complete peace time production of industry it could lose its growth of economy it had gained from production during and after World War Two (this brought the US out of its depression). Industry and the government saw the advantages of large government contracts with the private sector. The only way they saw to...

...The ColdWar
By Michael L. Parker
American Public University System
January 16, 2013
HIST102: American History since 1877
Professor Poster
The ColdWar
After the end of World War two, the United States and the Soviet Union were the two main super powers left standing. Both countries were afraid of each other in different ways. The United States was worried that the Soviet Union was trying to expand its communist ways by invading other countries. They were also worried because the Soviets had nuclear weapons which posed a threat to national and world security. Henretta stated “The conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, although it did not lead to any direct engagement on the battlefield, inaugurated a long twilight era of international tension — a ColdWar — during which either side, armed with nuclear weapons, might have tipped the entire world into oblivion”. [1] The Soviets were worried that the U.S. would become the dominant power over the world. The Soviet Leaders did not believe in freedom and they were afraid the U.S. would spread its democratic ways throughout the Soviet Union. Henretta stated “Even had nothing else divided them, the United States and the Soviet Union would have jostled each other as they moved to fill the vacuum. But, of course, the two countries were divided by ideology, by history, by geography and strategic interest,...

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The students are more relaxed in the free and unstructured clip ‘Pressures’ because they are on their own and their relaxation expresses itself with more animated body language. In the early stages of the clip ‘Pressures’, the students speak informally to one another and share their stresses in relation to the upcoming year. Kath uses informal linguistic and paralinguistic features in order to relate to her friends and reveal her worries in an almost comical manner. She begins the discussion while playing with her hair and nodding, while she says “proper stressed out to be honest”. Her paralinguistic features suggest that she is making an admission, and reflecting about her situation. Her informal register reflects who she talks to,...

...﻿Chapter 8: From a World War to a ColdWar (Contains Cuban Missile Crisis)
Why did ColdWar break out?
This portion of the content deals with the reasons for the outbreak of the ColdWar between the USA and the USSR
Competing Ideologies:
The ColdWar confrontation between the USA and the USSR was a clash between the opposing ideologies of Communism (USSR) and Democracy (USA)
Supporters of Democracy felt that Communism was akin to slavery and that only Democracy could offer freedom. On the other hand, supporters of Communism felt that workers in Democratic societies were the slaves of the Capitalists
Feelings of Mistrust:
Feelings of mistrust between Communism and the West began in 1917 when the Communists first came to power after the 17 October revolution in Russia. This is because the Communists called for a world revolution which the USA feared would cause an end to Capitalism and Democracy
Poor relations with the West continued when Britain, France, Japan and the USA sent funds and troops to prevent the spread of Communism during the Russian Civil War, fighting on the sides of the anti-Bolshevik White Armies
After World War II, the USA and the USSR emerged as the world’s only two superpowers, both believing in different ideologies. They also had the power to spread their ideologies to other countries...